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• ‟ My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

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• ‟ Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

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• ‟ My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

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• ‟ My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

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• ‟ My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

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